> OPERATION WARP SPEED: President-elect Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — which
> encouraged the rapid development and authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine
> — was highly successful and helped save millions of lives.
>
> RUSHED COVID-19 VACCINE APPROVAL: The FDA rushed approval of the COVID-19
> vaccine in order to meet the Biden Administration’s arbitrary mandate
> timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about the
> dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of
> adverse events. They were ignored, and days later, the Biden
> Administration mandated the vaccine.
One administration was applauded for reducing the amount of time and resources spent evaluating the possible negative outcomes of the vaccine.
One administration was harshly criticized for reducing the amount of time and resources spent evaluating the possible negative outcomes of the vaccine.
First point lauds rapid approval which it claims was successful and saved millions of lives. Second point criticizes a "rushed" and "dangerous" approval.
Not all of us agree and I say that with 3 covid vaccine shots coursing through my body.
I believe the two FDA scientists were concerned about the Biden admin demanding vaccine mandates around the vaccine booster where the FDA would normally have consultative influence and was intentionally excluded. By the time of the booster, there was active reports of adverse cardiac side effects in younger men. Exactly the demographic (military aged men) most affected by the mandate. Also, the original effectiveness of the vaccines were decreased due to the COVID mutations.
So the two are not necessarily mutually exclusive but certainly politics will spin the language in the report. The vaccines can and did help save lives and were rapidly created by Operation Warp Speed. Mandating the boosters for the military also put some lives at risk as well.
I’ve never seen any data that showed it was any more dangerous than any other vaccines that we’ve used for decades, and the “objections”always seen to come from the sorts that don’t trust the government at all for any reason or because it serves their political advancement.
> To highlight the main strength of o1 pro mode (improved reliability), we
> use a stricter evaluation setting: a model is only considered to solve a
> question if it gets the answer right in four out of four attempts ("4/4
> reliability"), not just one.
So, $200/mo. gets you less than 12.5% randomly wrong answers?
Retail US$ prices for Lego-branded kits are usually about $0.10 per piece. So I would expect this kit would cost about $85 if Lego were selling it, implying a +170% premium.
The B in BASIC stands for "beginner." AppleSoft BASIC on an Apple ][+ was my first programming experience -- in kindergarten (1979). I was 5, and with help from my brother and my dad, I was able to learn and program independently. When you turn a machine like that on, its default mode is just a blinking cursor and a BASIC REPL. But you could do amazing things right from BASIC with the ]['s colorful low-res graphics (and slightly less colorful hi-res graphics) using the family TV as the monitor. All the motivation I needed. Thank you Dr. Kurtz! (and Woz!)
It's impressive. But to be fair, a totally novel item should be expected to have pent up demand that smooths out over time. The F-150 was introduced 49 years ago so demand has smoothed already.
Our home kitchen has cabinets that are mostly transparent glass. Worst of both worlds? The clutter is easily visible but access is slowed. Really though, I think there is a purpose: doors keep the dust and grease of the kitchen environment away from the items in the cabinets.
Anti-rationality and ignorance aren't new to the scene in the US. In 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay titled "Cult of Ignorance." [1]
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and
there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism
has been a constant thread winding its way through our
political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as
your knowledge.'”
"Lossless" compression is based on information that can be discarded without negative consequences because it cannot be perceived by humans. The data is real and there, you just can't see it or hear it. If you can quantify what information humans can't perceive, you can discard it, leaving less data and possibly more amenable data for a subsequent lossless compression phase. MP3, JPEG, MPEG all benefit from this understanding of the human perceptual system.
You have it backwards there. You’re describing lossy compression.
Lossless is formats like Flac and zip. Lossless compression basically stores the same data in more efficient (from a file size perspective) states rather than discarding stuff that isn’t perceived.
The clue is in the name of the term: “lossy” means you lose data. “Lossless” means you don’t lose data. So if a zip file was lossy, you’d never be able to decompress it. Whereas you cannot restore data you’ve lost from an MP3.
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